BBC Look East back on air after storm damage to TV studio
Regional TV news programme BBC Look East has returned to the airwaves after being temporarily forced off air due to storm damage.Cameras, lights and other equipment was affected by rainwater leaking into the studio, at The Forum in Norwich, following a thunderstorm in the early hours of Saturday.Bulletins covering London and the East of England were broadcast until the show returned at 18:30 on Monday with an outside broadcast in Lowestoft, Suffolk.A BBC spokesperson said: "We're now back up and running in the studio and on location across the region."
Radio and online newsroom operations, also based at The Forum, were unaffected.Sunday's broadcast of Politics East also went ahead as usual.BBC Look East covers Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk.
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